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Here are 257 startup memes written for founders posting about building a company, each on a popular meme format we redrew as our own picture. Every caption is about a moment your audience lives with, so they recognise it and share it. Open any meme to make your own version.
By Tayyab, Founder · Published
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257 startup memes
Two Buttons meme - “Build the new feature”
- “Fix the bugs customers hate”
- “Founder”
Nobody: Me: meme - “Refreshing the signups dashboard for the 40th time today”
Expectation vs Reality meme - “Being my own boss and working when I want”
- “Being everyone's boss and working all the time”
POV meme - “Your first customer emails 'quick question' at 11pm”
- “You reply in 90 seconds”
Tweet meme - “Founder life is telling investors you're 'heads down' and telling your mum you're 'basically a CEO', and both mean you fixed one bug today.”
Tier List meme - “Customers who pay”
- “Customers who give feedback”
- “Investors who reply”
- “Co-working spaces”
- “Another logo redesign”
- “Founder priorities”
Starter Pack meme - “Founder”
- “Pitch deck”
- “Roadmap nobody reads”
- “Cold brew”
- “A domain name or two”
- “Runway spreadsheet”
- “Hoodie”
Text Message meme - “Do you have a quick minute to 'pick your brain'?”
- “Only if it comes with lunch”
- “It's more of a 30-minute call”
Graph meme - “Tabs open in my browser”
- “Idea stage”
- “Fundraising”
Venn Diagram meme - “Founders”
- “Customer support”
- “Same person”
Bell Curve meme - “Talk to customers”
- “Build a growth model with 40 tabs”
- “Talk to customers”
Loading Bar meme - “Runway”
- “11”
- “Please do not refresh”
Red Flag Green Flag meme - “A startup”
- “A logo before a customer”
- “No users, big team”
- “Customers pay up front”
- “Founders talk to users”
What I Say vs What I Mean meme - “We're in stealth mode”
- “Nobody knows us”
- “We're pivoting”
- “The first idea failed”
- “We're default alive”
- “We survive if nothing breaks”
Difficulty Levels meme - “Have an idea”
- “Build the product”
- “Get paying customers”
- “Keep the team paid too”
Achievement Unlocked meme - “First Paying Customer”
- “A stranger paid. You screenshotted it.”
Patch Notes meme - “Founder v1.1”
- “Added a weekly customer call”
- “Removed 'maybe someday' features”
- “Fixed sleep schedule (almost)”
- “Checks revenue every hour”
Warning Sign meme - “FOUNDER AT WORK”
- “Do not ask 'have you thought about pivoting?'”
Pie Chart meme - “My week”
- “Slack, email and meetings”
- “Talking to customers”
Alignment Chart meme - “Sends weekly investor updates”
- “Shares revenue publicly”
- “Ships on a Friday night”
- “Six interviews for an intern”
- “Hides churn from the board”
- “Pivots the company mid-meeting”
- “Founders”
How It Started, How It’s Going meme - “One idea on a napkin”
- “Forty ideas in a doc and one product”
Unpopular Opinion meme - “Your first 10 customers matter more than your first 10,000 followers.”
- “Fight me”
Day 1 vs Day 100 meme - “Building the perfect product in stealth mode”
- “Showing a rough version to anyone who will look”
- “Day 100”
Plot Twist meme - “The feature we spent three months on is the one nobody uses.”
- “Customers are funny 😅”
Hot Take meme - “Your logo is not the reason nobody signed up.”
- “Fight me in the comments”
Me When meme - “a customer says "it'd be great if it also did..."”
- “And so the roadmap grows”
Tell Me Without Telling Me meme - “Tell me you're a founder without telling me you're a founder”
- “You check the bank balance before the dashboard”
Fun Fact meme - “Customers will rename your product within a week. Use their word.”
- “Free branding”
Life Hack meme - “Ask a customer to explain the problem and write down their exact words.”
- “That's your landing page”
Normalize meme - “saying "we don't know yet" in investor updates”
It's Giving meme - “a landing page with one testimonial and five mockups”
- “Day one of every startup”
The Audacity meme - “a user asking for a refund and a new feature in one email”
- “Pick one, please”
Not Me meme - “refreshing the revenue dashboard for the fourth time before breakfast”
- “It's just a number”
Gentle Reminder meme - “Talk to one customer today. One conversation can save a month of building.”
- “Yes, even the grumpy one”
PSA meme - “"Let's grab coffee and pick your brain" is a meeting, and meetings cost runway.”
- “Charge for the coffee”
Confession meme - “I have renamed the company in my head about nine times this year.”
- “The domain was taken anyway”
This Is Your Sign meme - “send that cold email you have been rewording for a week”
- “Just press send”
Name a More Iconic Duo meme - “A big idea and a tiny runway”
- “I'll wait.”
Petition meme - “ban "it's just a quick feature" from every roadmap meeting”
- “Nothing is quick”
Roses Are Red meme - “I shipped on a Friday, it's true. Now I am support, QA and crew.”
- “Weekend cancelled”
Hear Me Out meme - “A weekly meeting called "what did we stop doing?"”
- “Short and brutal”
Core Memory Unlocked meme - “The first customer payment notification. I yelled in a café.”
- “The barista understood”
Living Rent-free meme - “the user who said "it's okay, I guess"”
- “Three years ago”
Wait for It meme - “We built fourteen features based on advice from investors.”
- “The users asked for dark mode.”
- “It took one evening”
In This Economy? meme - “Hiring a designer, a developer and a coffee machine?”
- “Pick one”
Nobody Talks About meme - “how quiet launch day is when nobody notices”
My Superpower meme - “I can turn any chat about lunch into a pitch.”
- “Not on purpose”
Villain Origin Story meme - “An investor said "let's keep in touch" and never replied once.”
- “And so it began”
Side Quest meme - “Went to fix a typo, ended up rebuilding the whole signup flow.”
- “Quest still active”
In a World meme - “where the demo always works, except in front of investors”
- “Coming to your Monday”
Spoiler Alert meme - “The "two week" feature is going to take two months.”
- “You have seen this episode”
Season Finale meme - “our biggest customer asked for "just one more feature"”
- “To be continued”
Spooky Season meme - “Opening the banking app at 6am.”
- “Nothing is scarier”
Summer Mode meme - “Customers on holiday, replies slow, founders still working.”
- “Sunscreen on the laptop”
Holiday Mode meme - “Out of office on, laptop open, shipping on the 23rd.”
- “Happy holidays, I guess”
New Year, New Me meme - “Take one full weekend off. A whole, real weekend.”
- “Calendar says February”
Me / Also Me meme - “I'll stop building features nobody asked for.”
- “Added a settings page at midnight.”
Client / Me meme - “Can you add one small feature?”
- “Absolutely. It'll be ready in two sprints.”
My Brain at 3am meme - “Just let me sleep.”
- “What if our pricing page is wrong?”
Interviewer / Me meme - “What is your runway?”
- “Emotionally or financially?”
We Have It at Home meme - “Can we hire a full team?”
- “We have a team at home.”
- “Team at home: me, a cofounder and three browser tabs.”
Me, an Intellectual meme - “We're running out of money.”
- “We are entering a capital-efficient phase.”
Narrator meme - “I'll ship this by Friday.”
- “It shipped three Fridays later.”
Nobody, Absolutely Nobody meme - “Writing changelog jokes that nobody reads”
Villain / Hero meme - “Your runway ends in six months!”
- “Then we'll talk to six more customers.”
Me vs Me in Anime meme - “We hit our first hundred users.”
- “A HUNDRED USERS! MY TRUE POWER AWAKENS!”
Doctor / Me meme - “You need to sleep and take weekends off.”
- “I can't, we have a demo on Monday.”
What People Think I Do meme - “Startup founder”
- “Always on holiday”
- “Something with computers?”
- “Rich, with a ping pong table”
- “Printing a hockey stick”
- “Changing the world”
- “Answering support at midnight”
Me in my Head vs Real Life meme - “A calm pitch and a slow clap”
- “Laptop at 3 percent, pitch starts”
What I Ordered vs What I Got meme - “A scalable, polished product”
- “A form and a spreadsheet”
Instagram vs Reality meme - “Team photo, standing desks”
- “Founder alone, cereal for dinner”
Monday Me vs Friday Me meme - “Roadmap full of goals”
- “Fixing Monday's bug”
Before Coffee vs After Coffee meme - “Reading the roadmap in peace”
- “Rewrote the pricing page again”
The Trailer vs the Movie meme - “"A quick MVP in two weeks"”
- “Four months and a rewrite”
First Draft vs Final Draft meme - “A full platform with AI and chat”
- “A form that works”
What I Said vs What They Heard meme - “We're exploring options.”
- “We're running out of money.”
Job Description vs the Job meme - “Flexible, own your time, big impact”
- “On call every night, server is yours”
Hero Arc vs Villain Arc meme - “Celebrating the team's win in public”
- “A bug shows up right after the demo”
Summer Me vs Winter Me meme - “Working from a beach café”
- “Debugging in a coat, no heating”
Online Me vs In-person Me meme - “"Excited to announce..."”
- “"So, um, we're sort of a... tool."”
Glow Up meme - “Landing page with 12 headlines”
- “Landing page with one clear sentence”
Who Would Win? meme - “A 90 slide pitch deck”
- “One happy customer on a call”
Me at 9am, 1pm, 5pm meme - “Big plan, small coffee”
- “Support tickets, no lunch”
- “Shipping a hotfix, dinner cold”
Choose Your Fighter meme - “The Builder, ships daily”
- “The Seller, closes deals”
- “The Dreamer, redesigns the logo”
Three Types of People meme - “3 types of startup ideas”
- “Solves a real problem”
- “A solution looking for a problem”
- “Started at 2am in the shower”
Past Me, Present Me, Future Me meme - “"I'll fix it after launch"”
- “Reading old code, crying”
- “Hiring someone to fix my fix”
The Four Horsemen meme - “The four horsemen of a bad week”
- “Churn”
- “Server down”
- “Invoice due”
- “Cofounder: "we need to talk"”
Me Through the Seasons meme - “A startup year”
- “New idea, new energy”
- “Customers on holiday”
- “Fundraising season”
- “Runway check”
Q1 to Q4 meme - “Our roadmap”
- “Twelve big bets”
- “Six bets, three bugs”
- “Fix the bugs”
- “Please just ship”
Every Team Has meme - “Every startup has”
- “The visionary”
- “The one who reads the docs”
- “The dev who ships it all”
- “The cofounder's dog”
- “The feature "next sprint"”
- “The runway”
Five Stages of Grief meme - “When a big customer churns”
- “It's a billing error”
- “They never gave feedback!”
- “A free month for staying?”
- “Staring at the MRR chart”
- “Ask what went wrong”
Bronze to Diamond meme - “Replying to support”
- “Replies in three days”
- “Copy-pasted answer”
- “Fixes it the same day”
- “Fixes it and tells them”
- “Fixed before they asked”
Beginner to Expert meme - “Validating an idea”
- “Builds it first”
- “Makes a landing page”
- “Interviews ten customers”
- “Asks for a deposit”
Spice Levels meme - “Investor feedback”
- “Interesting!”
- “Come back with more traction”
- “Why not use a spreadsheet?”
- “What if a big company copies you?”
Threat Levels meme - “Runway”
- “18 months, calm”
- “12 months, humming”
- “6 months, sweating”
- “3 months, eating noodles”
- “Pitching in the lift”
Battery Levels meme - “Founder battery”
- “Pitches the vision”
- “Fixes prod and email”
- “Ships anything”
- “Reads the changelog aloud”
Power Levels meme - “Founder energy on launch day”
- “Checks the site”
- “Replies to the first user”
- “Fixes a bug live on a call”
- “Launch, support and billing, solo”
Boss Levels meme - “Building a startup”
- “Find an idea”
- “Get a first user”
- “Hit first revenue”
- “Make payroll”
Coffee Count meme - “Reads the roadmap”
- “Cuts it in half”
- “Adds three features”
- “Rewrites the pitch at 4pm”
Emoji Scale meme - “Monthly revenue”
- “Up and steady”
- “Same as last month”
- “Down, "seasonal"”
- “Down, no excuse left”
At Every Age meme - “Having a business”
- “A lemonade stand, won”
- “Selling stuff online”
- “A startup and a dream”
- “A startup and a payroll”
Mood Forecast meme - “Founder forecast”
- “A new paying customer”
- “Waiting on investors”
- “Bug in production”
- “Refund request and a call”
Amateurs vs Professionals meme - “Building a product”
- “Build for months”
- “Talk to users first”
- “Add every feature”
- “Ship the tiny one”
- “Hope”
- “Measure”
Normal People vs Me meme - “Check the weather”
- “Check the MRR”
- “Take a day off”
- “Take a call on it”
- “Read the news”
- “Read the churn report”
Old Me vs New Me meme - “Built in secret”
- “Show it on day three”
- “Said yes to every call”
- “Say no to most”
- “Feared pricing”
- “Charge more”
Introverts vs Extroverts meme - “Emails first”
- “Calls first”
- “Pitches in writing”
- “Pitches at the party”
- “Networks via good posts”
- “Networks via everyone”
Main Quest vs Side Quests meme - “Talk to customers”
- “Redesign the logo”
- “Ship the fix”
- “Learn a new framework”
- “Close the deal”
- “Tidy the wiki”
Hero vs Sidekick meme - “The funding news”
- “The first ten customers”
- “The big launch”
- “The 2am hotfix”
- “Founder on stage”
- “Dev in the crowd fixing prod”
2016 vs Now meme - “Needed an office”
- “Needs good wifi”
- “Raise first”
- “Charge first”
- “Built in stealth”
- “Built in public”
Cat People vs Dog People meme - “Plans in private”
- “Tells everyone”
- “Quiet launch”
- “Launch with confetti”
- “Ignores Slack”
- “Replies in two seconds”
Search Suggestions meme - “how to tell my cofounder”
- “we need a pivot”
- “I'm exhausted”
- “the runway is shorter”
- “I renamed the product again”
Search History meme - “how to raise prices”
- “how to apologise for raising prices”
- “do customers leave if you raise prices”
- “is free forever a bad idea”
- “how to price software”
Lock Screen Notifications meme - “Investor call in five minutes”
- “Cofounder: "new idea (3am)"”
- “Payroll, due today”
3am Notifications meme - “Customer: love it, small question”
- “Cofounder: seen the dashboard?”
- “Mum: Are you eating?”
Error Message meme - “Cannot find product market fit. Try again later.”
- “Sigh”
Are You Sure? meme - “Launch without testing the payment page?”
- “Test it first”
- “Ship it”
Update Available meme - “New version: delegates one task this week”
- “Remind me later”
- “Install”
One-star Review meme - “A grumpy user”
- “Too easy to use. I felt unnecessary. I had nothing to complain about. One star.”
- “We'll add a few bugs for you”
Five-star Review meme - “A kind stranger”
- “This app saved me hours. I spent them opening it more. Perfect product, perfect loop.”
- “That is the dream, thank you”
Dictionary Definition meme - “Pivot”
- “A rebrand of the same idea with the same panic and a new landing page.”
- “"We're not failing, we're pivoting."”
Newspaper Headline meme - “Founder announces "exciting update", it's a bug fix”
- “Team reportedly thrilled to ship”
To-do List meme - “Founder to-do”
- “Reply to 14 emails”
- “Tweak the pricing page”
- “Rename the Slack channel”
- “Talk to one customer”
New Year's Resolutions meme - “Startup goals”
- “Update the roadmap”
- “Set up a dashboard”
- “Write the launch post”
- “Reach profitability”
Receipt meme - “ONE SMALL FEATURE”
- “Idea”
- “5 min”
- “Build”
- “3 weeks”
- “Bugs”
- “my sanity”
- “Two new feature requests”
My Week meme - “Launch week”
- “Ship it, no fear”
- “Fix the bug in the demo”
- “Fix the fix”
- “Reply to every email”
- “Wrote the changelog, forgot the launch”
Balance Scale meme - “What sinks the runway”
- “A subscription nobody used”
- “The new hire”
Per my Last Email meme - “A tired founder”
- “Re: Re: Following up (third time)”
- “Hi! Just floating this to the top of your inbox. Per my previous emails, our intro was lovely. No pressure at all, but my runway is shorter than my patience. Warmly, a founder”
Out of Office meme - “Founder”
- “Out of office: building”
- “I'm away from email and probably staring at a dashboard. I will reply when the build is green. For urgent matters, please resend with the word urgent and wait.”
Stress Meter meme - “Founder stress level”
- “Slept 8 hours”
- “Server down at demo”
- “The investor is watching live”
Flowchart meme - “Should we build the feature?”
- “Build it, then ask the customers”
Bingo Card meme - “Investor call”
- “"What's your traction?"”
- “"What's your moat?"”
- “"We'll circle back"”
- “Wi-Fi fails”
- “Mic on mute”
- “"The market is huge"”
- “A hockey stick slide”
- “"Send the deck"”
Quadrant Chart meme - “Our features”
- “Customers love it”
- “Customers ignore it”
- “Took forever”
- “Took one night”
- “One night, loved”
- “Took forever, ignored”
Training Montage meme - “Saying 'we're pre-revenue' with a straight face, over and over, in the car”
- “Cue the guitar solo”
The Sequel Nobody Asked for meme - “The outage is back. Same cause. Different 2am.”
- “Rated R for restarts 😴”
Director's Cut meme - “One investor update: nine drafts, two hours on the first line”
- “Runtime: your whole weekend”
Post-credits Scene meme - “Round closed. Then the cofounder asks: 'so, who is running payroll?'”
- “Stay for the paperwork”
Deleted Scene meme - “A founder eating cereal for dinner while watching the signup counter”
- “Not for the launch thread 🥣”
Plot Armor meme - “The first customer's feature request. Survived four pivots.”
- “Still on the roadmap”
Cartoon Logic meme - “Work 100 hours and it's 'hustle'. Work 40 and it's a 'lifestyle business'.”
Cue the Dramatic Music meme - “A Slack DM from the lead investor: 'Got a minute?'”
- “The violins arrive”
Rom-com Plot meme - “She had no time for love. Then a first payment notification buzzed. Now she checks her phone constantly.”
- “A love story in three pings ❤️”
Horror Movie meme - “An email from the bank: 'Please call us about your account'”
- “Their office closes at 5 📞”
Nature Documentary meme - “The solo founder emerges at dusk to refresh the signup page, then returns to the code.”
- “He has not eaten 🌙”
Cooking Show meme - “One MVP, two angry users, a pinch of 'we ship Friday'. Bake until the runway ends.”
- “Serves one very tired founder”
Sports Commentary meme - “He's got the demo, he's in the pitch, and the wifi just dropped! What a moment!”
- “Not like this”
Bedtime Story meme - “a founder built a perfect product in secret for two years”
- “Nobody came. The end. 🌑”
Anime Power-up meme - “I am about to email every customer who canceled and ask why”
- “Hope level: low”
Final Form meme - “Product-market fit, a year of cash in the bank, and a calm Monday”
- “Competitors in tears 😎”
Not All Heroes Wear Capes meme - “The support person who tells you what customers are actually saying”
- “Paid in snacks 🍪”
Hero Origin Story meme - “Our server crashed mid demo, in front of 40 people and my mother”
- “Now I load test everything 📈”
Secret Identity meme - “By day: CEO with a vision. By night: the only person who can fix the printer.”
- “Also the CFO, also the plumber 🔧”
Level Up meme - “Replied to an investor email without rewriting it three times”
- “+1 confidence 💪”
Speedrun meme - “Shipping the fix: skip the review, push to prod, pray”
- “World record: three minutes ⏱️”
NPC Energy meme - “'Have you considered pivoting?' 'Have you considered pivoting?'”
- “Said by every dinner guest 🍷”
Main Character Energy meme - “Closed the laptop after the demo like I knew the numbers”
- “I did not know the numbers 😅”
Challenge Accepted meme - “Build and launch a product in one weekend, with a day job and a cold”
- “Saturday, 6am: a blank file ☕”
Spring Cleaning meme - “Cutting the roadmap down to a single feature”
- “It grew back by Friday 🌱”
Back-to-school Energy meme - “New quarter, new OKRs, a fresh notebook for the same three problems”
- “This is our year”
Pumpkin Spice Season meme - “Every investor update is now 'harvest season' and a photo of a latte”
- “Fall metrics: cozy”
Gift Guide meme - “the founder in your life: a full week without a single Slack ping”
- “Priceless, apparently”
Dear Santa meme - “one investor who replies within 24 hours”
- “I've shipped all year”
Black Friday Deal meme - “A weekend with no pager. Limited stock, one per founder.”
- “Doors open at 3am, as usual 🔕”
Will You Be my Valentine? meme - “runway? Please last until spring.”
- “Yours, burning cash”
Snow Day meme - “Storm outside. Prod is down inside. Guess who's working from the couch.”
- “Snow day, for everyone else”
Heatwave Update meme - “The office AC died and the demo laptop is overheating at 3pm”
- “Cooling plan: a desk fan and denial”
Monday Motivation meme - “Your competitors are also confused. Ship something anyway.”
- “That's the whole secret 🚀”
Friday Feeling meme - “Shipping on Friday at 4:59pm because 'what could go wrong'”
- “Everything. Everything could. 🔥”
Breaking News meme - “Startup answers a customer email in under an hour. Customer faints.”
- “More at 11 📰”
Manifesting meme - “A customer who pays for the whole year without being asked”
- “Just this once, universe”
Saying the Quiet Part meme - “Nobody knows what next quarter looks like, including the board”
- “Pass the roadmap 🫠”
Be Honest meme - “How many tabs of competitor sites do you have open right now?”
- “Under ten is a lie 🪟”
Raise Your Hand If meme - “you have said 'we're in stealth mode' because there is no website yet”
- “Hands up, stealthily”
Tag Someone Who meme - “says 'it'll take five minutes' about a feature that touches the whole codebase”
- “You know the one 🫵”
Unsolicited Advice meme - “Talk to the customer before you write the next line of code. Not after.”
- “Free, unlike your runway 💡”
Small Win meme - “First customer who is not a friend, a cousin, or a friend's cousin”
- “Framing the receipt 🧾”
Humble Brag meme - “we have 14 users and I know all their names”
- “Very scalable 👋”
It's Honest Work meme - “A pricing page with three tiers and no asterisks. Nobody argued.”
- “Beautiful”
They Don't Know meme - “our 'enterprise infrastructure' is one server and a prayer”
- “It's holding. Barely.”
Fortune Cookie meme - “You will soon meet an investor who loves your idea and has no money.”
- “Lucky number: 18 months”
Work Horoscope meme - “Saturn enters your cap table. Expect a surprise from a cofounder.”
- “Avoid: signing anything at midnight”
Explaining my Job to Grandma meme - “So what do you do, dear?”
- “I build a tool that helps small businesses manage their schedules”
- “He owns a computer company. No salary, lots of meetings.”
Sensei and Student meme - “The best product is the one customers actually use.”
- “Sensei, may I add one more feature first?”
Me and the AI meme - “Summarize my customer feedback”
- “Customers want a mobile app, dark mode, and also a pony.”
My Pet and Me meme - “*sits on the laptop during the investor call*”
- “Yes, Biscuit is our head of product.”
Past Me, Future Me meme - “I'll document this later.”
- “What does this function do? Who wrote it? Oh no.”
Customer Support meme - “Your app doesn't work. Well, it works, just not how I imagined.”
- “Thanks for the feedback. Could you tell me what you imagined?”
Santa and Me meme - “Have you been good this year?”
- “I shipped, I ran payroll, and I sent only two 3am emails.”
The Ghost and Me meme - “Boo. I am the ghost of your first pivot.”
- “Hi. Which one? I've had a few.”
Boss Fight meme - “I AM THE FUNDING GAP. FOUR MONTHS OF CASH LEFT.”
- “Casts 'annual plan'. Critical hit.”
Therapist: It Can't Hurt You meme - “Churn isn't real, it can't hurt you.”
- “Dashboard: three cancellations before lunch.”
Kid Me, Adult Me meme - “I'll build a rocket and be a billionaire!”
- “I finally set up automatic invoices!!”
In Movies vs in Real Life meme - “Founders in turtlenecks, high fiving over a gong”
- “Alone at the kitchen table with a cold coffee”
In Anime vs in Real Life meme - “Power up, scream, ship the product”
- “Quietly click 'deploy' and pray”
In Cartoons vs in Real Life meme - “Runs off a cliff, floats until he looks down”
- “Checked the bank balance. Fell.”
Superhero Version vs Real meme - “Saves the quarter with one bold move”
- “Sends a polite email, waits for a reply”
The Book vs the Movie meme - “A 12 page business plan with a five year forecast”
- “A notes app entry titled 'ideas?'”
Season 1 vs Season 5 meme - “Excited about every feature, answers every user”
- “Mostly excited about a quiet Tuesday”
The Tutorial vs the Game meme - “'Build it and they will come'”
- “'They came, found a bug, and left'”
Weekday Me vs Weekend Me meme - “Standups, customer calls, one fire”
- “In the park, mentally rewriting the pricing page”
January Me vs December Me meme - “Goal: a hundred customers and a hobby”
- “Goal: reach January”
Camera on vs Camera Off meme - “Confident, calm, 'we're growing nicely'”
- “Three crashes and a very quiet spreadsheet”
Mood Board vs Result meme - “Sleek brand, bold vision, a founder on a stage”
- “A logo in the font that came free with the laptop”
The Heist Crew meme - “Our launch day crew”
- “The CEO with the plan”
- “The one dev who knows the code”
- “The intern holding the login”
- “Me, who forgot the pricing page”
The Superhero Team meme - “Our startup”
- “The CEO, a visionary”
- “The dev who ships overnight”
- “The designer who sees everything”
- “The spreadsheet, always right”
The Adventuring Party meme - “The startup on launch day”
- “The dev who takes every bug report”
- “The CTO, casting spells in the terminal”
- “Sales, pitching from far away”
- “Support, calming every angry user”
Anime Arcs meme - “Year one of the startup”
- “Learning what 'runway' really means”
- “Pitching investor after investor”
- “Six months of 'let's try a new logo'”
- “Still alive. Barely. Proud.”
My Day As Movie Genres meme - “Launch day”
- “The demo freezes on a loading spinner, live”
- “Prod went down and the logs are blank”
- “'We need to talk about equity'”
- “Rolling back a release in four minutes”
The Four Elements meme - “Investors”
- “'Why aren't you growing faster?'”
- “'We'll see how Q3 goes'”
- “Asks about unit economics, quietly”
- “'Love it! Let me intro a friend'”
My Three Brain Cells meme - “Launch day, 11pm”
- “Refreshing the signup page”
- “Checking that prod is up”
- “Googling 'how to run a company'”
Emoji Reactions meme - “Investor updates”
- “Subject: 'Quick update' (4,000 words)”
- “Revenue flat, graph still pointing up”
- “A typo on the metrics slide”
- “The founder who sends it on time”
Karate Belts meme - “Pitching”
- “Reads from the slides”
- “Tells a story, forgets the ask”
- “Knows the numbers by heart”
- “Says 'I don't know, here's how we'll find out'”
Evolution meme - “Our codebase”
- “One file called app.js”
- “Fifty files, three styles”
- “One file called app_final.js”
Health Bar meme - “Launch week”
- “Coffee and a deploy plan”
- “Third rollback”
- “A bug that only happens on stage”
- “Sunday: 'it's only a small fix'”
XP Gains meme - “Running a startup”
- “Closing a support ticket”
- “Fixing a bug before anyone saw it”
- “A customer saying 'I'd pay for that'”
- “Closing the month without checking the balance”
Difficulty Settings meme - “Raising money”
- “Friends and family”
- “A few kind meetings”
- “Forty 'maybe laters'”
- “'Come back when you have revenue'”
Hero Ranks meme - “Answering a support email”
- “Sends a template”
- “Answers within the hour”
- “Fixes the bug and tells them”
- “Writes back 'you were right, thank you'”
Storm Categories meme - “Customer requests”
- “'Could it have dark mode?'”
- “'Can it also do invoices?'”
- “'It should integrate with everything'”
- “'We need it by Friday for the demo'”
- “'Actually, can it be a different product?'”
December Countdown meme - “A founder”
- “Plans a big year-end push”
- “Closes three deals, loses two”
- “Waits for investor emails that won't come”
- “Checks the dashboard under the tree”
Stages of a Launch meme - “Our launch”
- “A genius app idea at 2am”
- “Tweeting countdowns to 40 followers”
- “Fixing the signup bug live on stream”
- “Live. Three signups. One is mom.”
- “Asleep on the keyboard”
Trust Levels meme - “Customers”
- “'Is this a scam?'”
- “Signs up for the trial”
- “Reports bugs politely”
- “Fixes your landing page copy for free”
Heroes vs Villains meme - “Startup life”
- “Paying customers”
- “A free trial, forever”
- “A clear roadmap”
- “A new idea at 11pm”
- “Good sleep”
- “A production alert”
Morning People vs Night Owls meme - “Ships at 9am, with a plan”
- “Ships at 3am, with a prayer”
- “Answers support before coffee”
- “Answers support after midnight”
- “Plans the day on paper”
- “Plans it in a panic”
Coffee People vs Tea People meme - “Debugs with the third espresso”
- “Debugs after a quiet walk”
- “Pitches fast”
- “Pitches calmly, with a pause”
- “Replies in 30 seconds”
- “Replies when the pot is ready”
Planners vs Improvisers meme - “A 12 month roadmap”
- “A sticky note: 'sell'”
- “Quarterly goals”
- “Whatever a customer yelled last”
- “Launches with a checklist”
- “Launches, checks later”
In Theory vs in Practice meme - “Talk to ten customers a week”
- “Talk to two, apologize to three”
- “Ship small, ship often”
- “Ship late, ship big, ship scared”
- “Sleep eight hours”
- “Sleep during the demo”
Kids vs Adults meme - “Asks 'what does it do?'”
- “Asks 'what's the pricing?'”
- “Wants to try everything”
- “Reads the terms first”
- “Says 'cool!'”
- “Says 'we'll circle back'”
Monday Morning Notifications meme - “9:00 Investor call: 'quick update'”
- “Subject: Churn report (it's not good)”
- “Rain all week. Great for coding, bad for mood.”
Holiday Notifications meme - “Holiday party and board call (same time)”
- “Family chat: Are you coming, or coding?”
- “Bank: payroll runs in 4 days. Are you OK?”
Spooky Notifications meme - “Unknown: We need to talk about the numbers”
- “Reminder: investor update due (yesterday)”
- “Smart speaker: reading your unpaid invoices aloud”
Delivery Updates meme - “Delivered: 200 hoodies, the old logo”
- “Delayed: the printer asked 'is the logo final?'”
- “Order placed: 200 hoodies with our new logo”
Game Over meme - “Your runway has reached zero”
- “Quit and sleep”
- “Raise one more round”
Low Battery meme - “Founder at 3%. Not on the roadmap: sleep. 🪫”
- “Take a weekend”
Cookie Pop-up meme - “We use cookies, one server, and a lot of hope”
- “Reject all”
- “Accept the risk”
Prove You Are Human meme - “Select every square with an investor who said 'love it, keep me posted'”
- “I'm a founder”
Storage Full meme - “Storage full: 4,000 screenshots of the same dashboard”
- “Manage storage”
- “Keep the graphs”
Terms and Conditions meme - “Salary is 'soon'. Equity is 'meaningful'. Weekends are 'optional'.”
- “Decline”
- “Accept anyway”
Three-star Review meme - “Trial Wanderer”
- “Good tool. Three stars because it fixed my problem, then showed me three more.”
- “We call that a roadmap.”
Critics' Review meme - “The Cap Table Critic”
- “A gripping series of pitch meetings. Strong lead, baffling second act, and a twist ending: 'let's stay in touch'.”
- “Sequel in production.”
Verb Definition meme - “to pivot”
- “To change everything while insisting it was always the plan.”
- “We pivoted. The logo remains.”
Adjective Definition meme - “scalable”
- “Works for ten users, will definitely work for a million, trust me.”
- “Our spreadsheet is highly scalable.”
Local News meme - “Local Founder Sleeps Eight Hours, Town Concerned”
- “Neighbors say he looked 'refreshed and suspicious'”
Scientists Discover meme - “Scientists Confirm: 'Quick Fix' Takes All Weekend”
- “Researchers say it was a one line change. They lied.”
Village Crier meme - “Hear Ye! Coffers Near Empty, Treasurer Weeps”
- “The King has summoned the jester to 'think bigger'”
Packing List meme - “Holiday”
- “Laptop”
- “Charger”
- “Second laptop, for emergencies”
- “A plan to not check Slack”
Gift List meme - “Team gifts”
- “Notebooks for the team”
- “Stickers with the logo”
- “Coffee vouchers”
- “The raise I promised in March”
Self-care List meme - “Self-care list”
- “Meditation (checked email)”
- “Gym (on a call)”
- “Journaling (the metrics)”
- “A day off. Rescheduled.”
Holiday Receipt meme - “STARTUP INC.”
- “Domain name”
- “$12”
- “Logo (version 14)”
- “$300”
- “Pizza for launch”
- “$64”
- “TOTAL: 3 signups 🎉”
My Year meme - “Founder, year one”
- “Big vision, bigger deck”
- “First customer. Not a relative.”
- “Pivot, called an 'iteration'”
- “Runway: six months. Sleep: none.”
- “Investor update: 'strong momentum'”
Holiday Week meme - “Startup, holiday week”
- “Shipping the final release”
- “Fixing the final release”
- “Fixing it from the sofa”
- “Customer emails: 'it's broken'”
- “Quietly rolling back everything”
Weekend Plans meme - “My weekend”
- “Date night, phone face down”
- “Family trip, one email check”
- “Park, 'just one bug'”
- “Rewriting the whole backend”
- “Telling the team it was 'small'”
Reply All meme - “Cofounder”
- “RE: Investor intro”
- “Thanks all! Between us, our burn rate is higher than my patience. Wait. Why is the investor on this? Sorry. I meant it as a joke. Mostly.”
Letter to Santa meme - “A founder”
- “My wish list”
- “Dear Santa, I've been good. I shipped on time (mostly). Please bring a bug free release, a customer who reads the docs and a bank balance that rounds up. P.S. A quiet deploy will do.”
Email From Future Me meme - “Future you”
- “Don't promise that feature”
- “Do not promise the feature to close the deal. You will build it for one customer. Also: write the contract in plain words.”
Hype Meter meme - “Hitting 100 signups”
- “Calm”
- “Phoning my parents”
- “I screenshotted the counter 📸”
Cringe Meter meme - “Rewatching our first demo video”
- “Fine”
- “Delete the startup”
- “I said 'disrupt' four times”
Holiday Bingo meme - “December as a founder”
- “Year-end deck”
- “Investor 'out until Jan'”
- “Prod down on the 24th”
- “Rushed sale email”
- “Planning next year at 1am”
- “Relative asks 'real job yet?'”
- “Company party, awkward”
- “Resolution: more sleep”
Summer Bingo meme - “Summer as a founder”
- “Slow signups”
- “Investors on holiday”
- “Laptop in the sun”
- “Intern starts”
- “Offsite at the lake”
- “Wifi in the park”
- “AC bill vs revenue”
- “Fall plan panic”
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